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The CyberSentinel

Issue 0013

March 2013

The National Finals Competition Special EditionThe National Finals Competition Special Edition

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CyberPatriot IV, Open Division Cham-pions: Alamo Acad-emy, San Antonio, Texas. The team was awarded the President’s Cup and received a $12,000 scholarship check from Northrop Grumman.

Upcoming Events

March 14-16 National Finals Competition (Washington, D.C.)

April 1 CyberPatriot VI Registration Begins

The Washington, D.C., area will soon be the temporary home to 28 teams from the United States and Canada as they compete in the CyberPatriot V National Finals Com-petition. During March 14-16 , 2013, the Gaylord National Conven-tion Center, in Maryland, will host the 26 US teams in the All Service and Open Divisions and two Cana-dian teams in the International Exhibition. In addition to the com-petition’s mainstay Network Secu-rity Event, powered by SAIC’s Cy-berNEXS, the National Finals Com-petition will include Digital Foren-sics and Networking Events.

In the Digital Forensics Event, Com-petitors will decrypt and decode rogue files on their systems while competing in the Network Security Event. Competitors in the Net-working Event will design, build, and secure a network in a

one-hour time limit. However, without our CyberPatriot spon-sors, the competition would not be possible.

The Northrop Grumman Founda-tion is the Presenting Sponsor for this year’s CyberPatriot National Finals Competition. Our Network Security Competition will be pow-ered by CyberNEXS from the Sci-ence Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Additionally, SAIC will conduct the Digital Fo-rensics Competition. Cisco Sys-tems Incorporated will provide the competition network and conduct the Networking Competition. Splunk software will be used for the first time in the competition as a team system monitoring tool.

Formal competitor mentoring sessions will be conducted by the

New Events, Awards, and Scholarships at

The National Finals Competition

Northrop Grumman Corporation, Cisco Systems, and other sponsors.

The competition administration of teams will be provided by Northrop Grumman, CyberPatriot Founding Partners, SAIC and the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and

Security, and the University of Mary-land, University Campus. For the Competitors’ Dinner, our sponsors were gracious enough to provide door prizes that include:

- iPad Mini - Ogio Computer Backpacks - Digital Cameras

At the dinner, each competitor will receive a gift bag filled with useful gifts from our sponsors. The awards to be presented or announced at the Awards Banquet will include the:

- Cisco Networking Event Award (Continued on Page 2.)

Commissioner’s Cache

The CyberPatriot V National Finals Competition is here! Our outstanding finalists will be locked in two days of intense com-petition March 14-16 at the Gaylord National Convention Cen-ter. The Network Security Competition will test the skills of our finalists against a red team of “attackers.” Quick thinking and attention to detail will be put to the test in our new Cisco Networking Event as well. With all that, there will be time for fun and learning. We have a fun com-petitors’ dinner planned with great door prizes donated generously by our sponsors. Individual competitors from different teams will sit together at the dinner. Our Presenting Sponsor, Northrop Grumman, along with Cisco, con-duct mentoring sessions on career paths in the cyber field for the competitors . During the awards banquet, 13 awards will be presented for the top three All (Continued on page 2.)

Features

Page 1 New Events, Awards, and Scholarships at The Na- tional Finals Competition 2 Cisco Networking Event Makes Debut at The Na- tional Finals Competition 3 Open Division National Finalists 5 All Service Division Na- tional Finalists 8 Start your legacy now, join the Northrop Grum- man Intern Program

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(Continued from page 1.)

- International Exhibition Award - Service JROTC Champions Awards - Civil Air Patrol Champion Award - US Naval Sea Cadet Corps Award - Commander-in-Chief’s Cup (All Service Divi-sion) - President's Cup (Open Division)

Again, this year, the Northrop Grumman Foundation will award more than $50,000 in scholarships to the top teams in the All Ser-vice and Open Divisions.

Teams that are part of the CyberPatriot Na-tional Finals Competition will be considered for their top state awards, followed by Semi-finalists, then participants in Round 3.5. Ad-ditionally, local honors may be bestowed on the national finalists by their schools, organi-zations, or communities.

Team Logos

New Events, Awards

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The CyberSentinel Publisher Editor Assistant Editor CyberPatriot Program Office Bernard K. Skoch Francis S. Zaborowski Ryne Smith 1501 Lee Hwy Arlington, VA 22209 www.uscyberpatriot.org • E-mail: [email protected]

even invited their Cisco Mentor, Ryan Kido, to join them in a local television report on their team. Sandi Boyd, Coach for Alamo Academies, remarked about how helpful the team’s Cisco Mentor, Chad Stewart, was when training the team on the Cisco Packet Tracer software and raved: “It’s great to have an outside mentor give (Continued on Page 7.)

As CyberPatriot continues to evolve into a more challenging and relevant competition, our sponsors step up to the challenge. New to The CyberPatriot National Finals Competition is the Cisco Networking Event. Cisco systems engineers will conduct the event. Three parts will comprise the event:

Network Design and Subnetting

Physical Wiring

Network Configuration.

Cisco took a hands-on approach to preparing teams for the competition. Cisco systems en-gineer Steve Gyurindak was the lead for the competition preparation. With the backing of Cisco headquarters, he arranged for more than 20 systems engineers to meet and men-tor each of the National Finalist Teams. Addi-tionally, he held three WebEx teleconferences to explain the competition to Coaches and answer any questions and concerns they had.

Reaction to the mentorship was very positive.

The Leilehua Hawaii Army Junior ROTC team

(Continued on page 8.)

Commissioner’s Cache

(Continued from page 1.)

Service and Open Division competitors, as well as the top International Exhibition, Civil Air Patrol, Naval Sea Cadet, and Junior ROTC teams. Two additional awards will be pre-sented to the teams in each Division with the highest scores for the Cisco Networking Event. On March 14, the competitors will receive a briefing at the Northrop Grumman Corpora-tion and tour Washington, D.C. We have a great schedule of events, and a great group of competitors. We wish every team could be here, but sadly that was just not possible. But we hope to see YOUR team at National Finals next year!

Bernard K. Skoch Commissioner CyberPatriot Program Air Force Association

Cisco Networking Event Makes Debut at

The National Finals Competition

Cisco Mentor Ryan Kido

Cisco Mentor Aaron Rodriguez (standing right) and the Marine Military Academy team

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“Knowledge, discipline, dedication, teamwork and the pitfalls and joys of setting and achieving goals. These are all valuable lessons in life and the foundations of strong individuals whom we will look towards to being great leaders." Yenny H. Yi, Benjamin Franklin High School

Benjamin Franklin High School

Location: Los Angeles, CA Coaches: Yenny H. Yi and Dante Mabin

Team Members Alvir Dela Cruz Alfonso Figueroa Patty Hernandez Bryan Sanchez Jasmine Talavera William Wong

Alamo Academies

Location: New Braunfels, TX Coach: Sandi Boyd

Team Members Kenny Graves III Paul Hopson Stephen La Rosa Jason Mirch Cory Nichols Maggie Schmeltekopf

Open Division National Finalists



Chantilly Academy

Location: Chantilly, VA Coach: Joan Ozdogan

Team Members Anirudh Bagde Weyland Chiang Chris Kim Brian Nguyen Timothy A. Rothschild

Edward Roybal Learning Center

Location: Los Angeles, CA Coach: Will Diaz

Team Members Jimmy Can Joseph Falcon Valeria Barrera Neel Patel Brian Sandoval

Marshall Academy

Location: Falls Church, VA

Coach: Shelli Carpenter

Team Members Sepehr Ansaripour Charlie Franks Xhesi Galanxhi Peter Marr Alex Ryan Jacob Walters


‘Iolani School

Location: Honolulu, HI Coach: Lisa Miyamoto

Team Members Arnold Chang Daniel Dai Korry Luke Roman Nasuti Kevin Suzuki

“The only way to get the youth interested in cyber security is to give them the resources to find the vulnerabilities.” Tobias Sebastian, Edward Roybal Learning Center

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Marshall Academy

Location: Falls Church Coach: Jason Simeon

Team Members

CJ Gardner Alex Handley Kevin Houk Jack Lynch Ramón Martinez-Diaz Peter Morrissey

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Location: Lexington, MA Coach: Chiamaka Porter

Team Members Artur Arakelyan Pat Bowden Derek Chaplin Nick Cunningham Akshitha Ramachandran Matt Zenzie

North Hollywood High School

Location: North Hollywood, CA Coach: Yolanda Gardea

Team Members Woojin Cheon Jenny Lu Dana Sirota Bryan Melgar Aguilar John Yoon

North Hollywood High School

Location: North Hollywood High School Coach: Jay Gehringer

Team Members Patrick Chiapa Nathan Rower Jonathan Shuai

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA Coach: Greg Grenier

Team Members Bethany Grenier Mathieu Kirkland Garrett Potvin Garrett Thomas Russell Wakugawa Janeline Wong

Summit Technology Academy

Location: Lee’s Summit, MO Coach: Lisa Oyler

Team Members Elias Duckworth Brian Green Saige Mehl Kevin Schulmeister Keaton Thomson Ben Wolff

“Not only are teams learning about cyber defense, they are learn-

ing to be leaders, better team players and communicators, but

most of all, they are having fun.”

Chiamaka Porter, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

"To be successful in CyberPatriot, students must integrate their technical and academic skills as they work together as a team to solve real world challenges.” Jay Gehringer, North Hollywood High School

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East Central High School

Location: San Antonio, TX Coach: Jasper Miller Team Members James-Cameron Harris Dane Freddie Christian R. Lopez Sebastian Ronco

All Service Division National Finalists




Leilehua High School

Location: Wahiawa, HI Coach: Nick J. Spiridigliozzi Team Members Seth Allen Michael J. Grajales Kawika Lavarias Sharon Thepsenavong David Williams

La Cueva High School

Location: Albuquerque, NM

Coach: First Sergeant Alberto Griego

Team Members

Josh Cutler Matthew Mooneyham Tyler Morris Vyvian Nguyen Cassandra Suter Ryan Wooldridge

Marine Military Academy

Location: Harlingen, TX Coach: William Beckman

Team Members Dylan Che Drew Hopkins Daniil Murashov Jose Rodriguez Kyle Rogers

Covington High School

Location: Covington, LA Coach: Doug Johnson Team Members Robert Crawford Zack Guillot Owen Langston J.T. Peters Ethan Van Sant

Flour Bluff High School

Location: Corpus Christi, TX Coach: Armando R. Solis

Team Members Colin O’Brien Josiah Anderson

"CyberPatriot is a great program, because it is providing the hands-on training that will ultimately lead to allowing these young men and women to be ready for whatever comes their way.” Armando R. Solis, Flour Bluff High School

“The CyberPatriot competition has provided my students an arena every bit as exciting as any sporting event. High fives, chest bumps and victory dances comparable to anything you’ve ever seen in an end zone, demonstrate the attitudes prevalent in this competition.” Doug Johnson, Covington High School

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Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School

Location: Fitchburg, MA Coach: Paul Jornet

Team Members Catelyne Farrell Billy Ghio Brett Grant Jamison LaRoche Jack Marabello Connor Quick

John Jay High School

Location: San Antonio, TX Coach: John Lopardi

Team Members Tristan Crawford Brad Myers David Peterson Cedrik Ramos Cyrus Reyna Chaz Thomas

Medina Valley High School Location: Castroville, TX Coach: Robert Spracale

Team Members Anthony Alvarado Estaban Elizondo Michael Hall Aydan Hamilton John Perez Jon Thronson

Big Sioux Composite Squadron

Location: Brookings, SD Coach: Capt. Shannon Hofer

Team Members Chris Dinnel Tyler Gross Joshua Klosterman Brianna Lynn Simon Pulscher James Skon

Colorado Springs Cadet Squadron

Location: Colorado Springs, CO Coach: Bill Blatchley

Team Members Kyle Fields Victor Griswold Darius Hines-Cross Carlin Idle Christopher Ottesen

Youngstown ARS Composite Squadron

Location: Vienna, OH Coach: Paul Creed III

Team Members Megan Beatty Sean Beatty Michael Gentile Brian Hunter Austen Peters Andrew Stoneburner

"I am proud to say that our future is in good hands with this smart generation of young cadets who value our country’s na-tional security. These outstanding citizens are extremely enthusi-astic about being valued members of the CyberPatriot world.” John Lopardi, John Jay High School

“In today’s hyper-connected world, the security of all of the com-puting systems involved is critical to the nation’s infrastructure and defense. CyberPatriot prepares the next generation for that defense.” Paul Creed III, Youngstown ARS Composite Squadron

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Cisco Networking

(Continued from Page 2) direction. [The competitors] listen!” Kelly Jones, Coach of the Valor Division Team, was similarly impressed by her team’s Cisco Mentor Lanier Millsap and his willingness to provide continued support: “Our engineer was super help-ful and set us up a WebEx meeting so we could meet on Tuesdays and Thurs-days via video chat and also in-person. It was a great learning experience.” CyberPatriot looks forward to a contin-ued relationship with Cisco and its ex-perienced mentors in future competi-tions.



Valor Division

Location: Gardendale, AL Coach: Kelly Jones

Team Members Genevieve Breimhorst Allen Jones Isaac Lenox Jose Martinez

Fort Fisher Division

Location: San Diego, CA Coach: Joe Gombos

Team Members Alfonso Arana Emmanuel Crawford Todd Fuller Steven Strickland


“CyberPatriot is the chief motivating factor in our school’s network security course offer-ings. It’s an honour to help our students rep-resent Canada in this competition.” Paul Buskell, Sisler High School

Sisler High School

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Coach: Paul Buskell

Team Members Zach Derado Justin Governo Devyn Hrechkosy Cody Landry Ajit Matharoo

Sisler High School

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Coach: Charles Bazilewich

Team Members Gurneet Brar Michael Czelen Nick Dixon Arran Retzlaff Sandeep Seehra

International Exhibition Teams

“CyberPatriot isn’t the kind of competition where an inspirational speech and good luck really make a difference; instead the work requires a real application of technical skill.“ Joe Gombos, Fort Fisher Division

How to Report Internet Crime

To report Internet crime, to include hack-ing and identity theft, use the FBI’s Inter-net Crime Complaint Center (IC3). IC3 is a central reporting hub for local, state, and federal agencies. The IC3 accepts online Internet crime complaints from either the actual victim or from a third party to the complainant. The FBI requests that you provide the following information when filing a complaint:

Your name

Your mailing address

Your telephone number

The name, address, telephone num-ber, and Web address, if available, of the individual or organization you believe defrauded you.

Specific details on how, why, and when you believe you were de-frauded.

Any other relevant information you believe is necessary to support your complaint. (Source: FBI)

For more information: http://www.ic3.gov

To file a complaint, go to: https://complaint.ic3.gov/ctf.aspx

http://www.ic3.gov

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An internship at Northrop Grumman Corporation is unique. You will learn new skills, explore our enterprise, network with experts, connect with thought leaders, and finish with a resume that opens doors. CyberPatriot interns are the future of our nation’s workforce. You’ll work side by side with our cyber pros to learn more about the career field and how important this specialty is to our national security. Here are the basics:

For college level internships we typically look for rising sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students at accredited colleges and universities

We look for high potential students of all grade levels and have internship opportunities for high school students

Work assignments typically begin in May/June and end in August/September. There are some opportunities for interns to stay on in a part-time internship capacity year round

Included in many of our intern programs are orientation and kick-off events, networking opportunities with leadership and other interns, social activities, and learning sessions

We also offer cooperative education opportunities, or co-ops. A co-op is slightly differ-ent from an internship in that your school decides the terms and works with us through-out the experience. Co-ops may earn credit plus an hourly wage, and they are not lim-ited to the summer months

For more information about the intern program go to: http://www.northropgrumman.com/Careers/StudentsAndNewGrads/Pages/Cyberpatriot.aspx To find opportunities for CyberPatriots, go to this link and enter “CyberPatriot” in the key-word field: https://ngc.taleo.net/careersection/ngc_coll/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

This Month in

Cyber History


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CyberPatriot IV, All Service Division Champions: Colo-rado Springs Cadet Squad-ron, Colorado Wing, Civil Air Patrol. The team members received the Commander-in-Chief’s Cup and a $12,000 scholarship check from Northrop Grumman.

Team Logos (Continued from page 2.)

First Tweet

According to computerhistory.org, Twitter came out of a brainstorming session at the podcasting company Odeo. The initial concept was to share short messages via SMS text messaging with a small group.

Jack Dorsey was the primary designer of what was then code-named “twttr” and sent the first message at 9:50am on March 21st, 2006 - "just setting up my twttr." Twitter would be released to the public that July and found its first major success at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in 2007 shortly after it was spun-off as its own company, Twitter, Inc. Source: www.computerhistory.org

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